27 January: Holocaust Memorial Day. University initiatives not to forget

27 JanuarymarksHolocaust Memorial Day,established by the Italian Parliament with Law 211 of 20 July 2000 . La data è stata scelta quale anniversario dell’abbattimento dei cancelli di Auschwitz, per ricordare la Shoah, le leggi razziali, la persecuzione italiana delle cittadine e dei cittadini ebrei, gli italiani che hanno subito la deportazione, la prigionia, la morte, nonché coloro che, anche in campi e schieramenti diversi, si sono opposti al progetto di sterminio e, a rischio della propria vita, hanno salvato altre vite e protetto i perseguitati.

On this occasion, every yearceremonies, initiatives, meetings and common moments of narration of the facts and reflectionare organised, particularly in schools of all levels, on what happened to the Jewish people and to the Italian military and political deportees to the Nazi camps so that the memory of a tragic and dark period of history in our country and in Europe may be preserved in the future of Italy, and so that similar events may never happen again.

The University of Padua’s Centre for the History of the Resistance andContemporary Age organises a meeting on Monday 27 January at 10 a.m. entitled ‘Holocaust Memorial Day. A public reflection twenty-five years after its institution’.at the Aula Magna ‘Galileo Galilei’ of Bo Palace.During the event, Gadi Luzzatto Voghera,director of the Foundation Centre for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan will give a lectio magistralis..

After the institutional greetings,Filippo Focardi ,director of the Centre, will introduce the speech by Gadi Luzzatto Voghera. Afterwards , the Trio Hegel(David Scaroni, violin; Davide Bravo, viola; Andrea Marcolini, cello) will perform the Präludium und Fuge über B-A-C-H, Op.46 (1934) by Hanns Eisler; the Trio for violin, viola and cello in A m Op. 32 (1945) by Ermanno Wolf Ferrari; the theme from ‘Schindler’s List’ with a revision for string trio of the Trio Hegel by composer John Williams.

Participation in the event is free.

You can also follow the meeting viastreaming at the following link:https://www.youtube.com/live/TwZcF9xWo7g.